Women's Cross Country

McDaniel women 10th, men 11th at Gettysburg

Oct 18, 2008

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Lindsay Wilson (Catonsville,
Md./Seton Keough) finished seventh in a field of 233
runners in the 6,000-meter women’s race to lead McDaniel to a
10th-place finish at the Gettysburg Invitational in
cross country action on Saturday.

The Green Terror women finished with 244 points, mired in a stretch
of teams from seventh to 10th place that were separated
by just 10 points. Johns Hopkins won the 21-team event with 70
points behind individual champion Laura Paulson in
a preview of the Centennial Conference championship meet on the
same course in two weeks.

The McDaniel men were 11th with 298 points. The Blue
Jays won the 19-team, 8,000-meter race with 77 points.

Wilson covered the course in a time of 22:58.60, just shy of 42
seconds behind Paulson.

Roxanne Fleischer (Westminster, Md./Winters Mill)
finished in 21st place with a personal-best time of
23:48.53 while Emily Peoples (Wilmington,
Del./Brandywine) was 50th with a time of
24:35.49.

Jennifer Garnett (Los Altos, Calif./Homestead)
finished 76th with a personal-best time of 25:10.48.
Laura Shinn (Weehawken, N.J./Pennington) rounded
out the Green Terror’s top five in a time of
26:54.07.

On the men’s side, the top four runners for McDaniel all hit
personal-best times. Kevin Bowman (Westminster,
Md./Brunswick) crossed the line in a time of 26:42.15 to
finish 30th overall while Scott Pusateri
(Accident, Md./Northern) was 37th overall in a
time of 26:25.05. Rob Kelvey (Westminster,
Md./Westminster) finished 64th (27:23.29) while
Cody Crutchley (Frederick, Md./Gov. Thomas
Johnson) was 84th (27:39.99).

C.J. Naper (New Windsor, Md./South Carroll) rounded
out the Green Terror’s top five with a time of
28:17.06.

McDaniel takes next week off before competing in the conference
meet on Oct. 25. The women’s race begins at 11 a.m. with the
men’s race to follow at 12 p.m.